Community behavioral health and information technology: a tale of two funders

It is a federal responsibility; it is a state responsibility. above the past 40 years, community behavioral health funding has shifted from the federal management to the states and then partially back to the federal rule (through Medicaid). Revenue sources have mov from federal grant funding of service "capacity," to state arrest grants, to a blended grant/Medicaid/managed care "medical conduct model. During that same period, national standardization of data reporting has move swiftly the gamut from fill-in-the-blank tables put togethered by the National Institute of Mental Health in its grant applications, [i]or[/i] part of to the other the Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program (MHSIP), to HIPAA, with